Spring sportive time is kicking in, and we're getting behind our local one - Cotswold Cogfest. This is only its second year, but there was a healthy number of riders last year, and we've been told, it looks like being a bigger ride out this time around. Here at JRtB we...

In 2008 Boris Johnson got off to a bad start on cycling. He reduced London's congestion charge zone and focused on increased traffic flow. Despite this poor start by the end of his second term things were looking quite different. Andrew Gilligan’s influence was in full...

Well that was fun. The first part of the ride, along empty roads with distant views of hills and sea, gave that useful real time to dwell on the topics for the meeting ahead. Even that rainstorm on entering...

Mass produced modern carbon bikes are formed in moulds. They are almost all made in factories in the Far East, and one factory might well make moulds and frames for a range of different bike brands. So far so what, we know this. And actually it doesn't make for bad fra...

I’m putting it down to the brakes being the ‘wrong’ way round. I was picking myself up on the floor, trying to resist the temptation to take the glove off for a look at what was causing the pain. There was something about my left thigh as well. The adrenaline would wea...